Jonty WareingThings I regret: Looking at github issues for the open-source self-driving car conversion kit.
Thousands of people use these things on public roads.
Candidate for understatement of the year: "This can be a safety issue if a driver is misled into thinking that steering is occurring"
The most damning evidence I've ever seen for "this device is only used by single people":
If you have a passenger they *also* have to be looking at the road or it sets off the "pay attention" alarm.
Or they can put their head on the dashboard.
Honestly the funniest thing I've seen this year. I know it's only mid-January, but still.
James Smith 💾@jonty what the actual fuck have you found‽
@jonty it blows my mind that someone sells a device that sticks onto the windscreen, and people plug it into their car's CANbus and let it drive them around.
10,000 users on the roads, and a disclaimer that says "THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED."
I'm beginning to think humans were a mistake, let alone computers.
Ivor Hewitt
lori
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@[email protected] I'm increasingly of the opinion that we made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. @jonty
Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@Floppy @jonty tbh it only says this in "licensing", and who reads licenses these days?
This should have never been made public, let alone being sold with all these "new low price - it drives your car for $999!". Or at the very least it should have come with huge warnings everywhere telling that using it on public roads is illegal, not this fig leaf of "you are responsible for complying with local laws" buried in "licensing" on GitHub.
On the first glance it seems that if you buy this $1k device from their website, you won't even visit the page that says this disclaimer. "For research purposes only" is only on the GitHub to serve as legal insurance apparently; they're selling the device to regular car owners, as "purpose built to run openpilot", and nowhere on their website does it say that it's "for research purposes". It's as if you would have bought a new car from a car dealership, and it had "only for research purposes" hidden somewhere deep in the EULA.
The creators of this shit should be prosecuted imo.
Alexander Sosedkin 
Cassandrich